Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok Goes Boom TikTok made between $200 million and $300 million in advertising worldwide last year, and this year it’s aiming to generate $500 million in the United States alone, The Information reports. Optimistic forecasts and sales goals are far from reliable predictors of […]
The IAB Tech Lab is shuttering the DigiTrust cookie-sharing program as of the end of July, the group said Wednesday. DigiTrust was a platform for SSPs and publishers to sync cookies with DSPs, thus improving match rates and web latency. The non-profit org spun out of an IAB working group in 2014, and the IAB […]
Google released a beta version of its sellers.json file last week, just before the Q2 deadline it promised at the beginning of this year. Sellers.json is a transparency tool to help buyers distinguish between direct sellers versus intermediaries and resellers. Yet, only 5% of Google’s sellers.json files are complete, according to data from programmatic consultancy […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. April Showers, May Flowers Retail sales surged in May, recovering 63% of their losses from March and April. While this is a sign of recovery, Reuters reports, the United States economy isn’t out of the hole, especially since many states have rising COVID-19 infections. […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In late April, Google announced in-market tests for some of the proposals in its Privacy Sandbox, where the cookie-free web is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Setting Up Shop Shopify landed a partnership with Walmart so that merchants that use the ecommerce software can sell on Walmart’s online marketplace. It’s a logical tie-up: Walmart wants to rapidly scale the brands and SKUs in its marketplace and Shopify can offer small […]
This is the sixth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Everyone and their mother operates a customer data platform (CDP) nowadays. And that crowding obscures the actual purpose of a CDP, said James McDermott, co-founder and CEO of the CDP Lytics. […]
Remember that 50 million euro fine that Google got slapped with in France for failing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation last year? Looks like Google is going to have to pay up. On Friday, the Conseil d’État (translates to Council of State), a division of the French government that serves as the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Hirsch, chief commercial officer at PubMatic. Looking back on global supply-path optimization (SPO) conversations as recently as the first quarter, several common themes were of interest across the board. On the agency side […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Adobe’s Ad Cloud Drags Adobe is “significantly” accelerating its plan to eliminate its low-margin Advertising Cloud transaction-driven business and focus on the software side of the business. “The transaction business is very resource-intensive,” CEO Shantanu Narayen said Thursday when explaining the move during Adobe’s […]
Enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) begins in less than three weeks. “And many businesses just aren’t ready,” said Cillian Kieran, CEO and founder of Ethyca, a privacy compliance startup that closed its $13.5 million Series A on Thursday. The round brings Ethyca’s total funding to $20 million since the company raised its […]
Programmatic spend in the United States began to rise in May, as lockdowns eased. Hard-hit brands such as retail and travel are slowly returning. Connected TV (CTV), which hasn’t been hit as hard as other media during the pandemic, looks to be the big winner in recovery as well. Data from ad tech companies including […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Is On The Way Publishers are starting to see advertising green shoots, at least when it comes to video monetization on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. CPMs, which bottomed out in mid-April, have been steadily rising to the point where they’re now not […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tying Together The Googleverse Google has undergone several re-orgs since Prabhakar Raghavan took over as SVP of advertising and commerce in 2018. And the changes are still coming. This week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that Raghavan will also lead Search, including news, […]
The IAB Tech Lab publicly unveiled a technical spec on Friday so that publishers and their partners can handle data deletion requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Documentation for the spec, which is part of an overall framework for CCPA compliance, was committed to GitHub last week. Under CCPA, companies and third-party partners […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do The Math MediaMath is pursuing strategic options, including a potential sale, Digiday reports. MediaMath has more than $500 million in debt and investments to recoup, so it’s a tough sell. Retailers such as Walmart and Target might have the balance sheets, but not […]
Consent usually gets lumped in with privacy and regulatory compliance. But it’s about a lot more than that, said Romain Gauthier, CEO of French consent management platform Didomi. On Tuesday, Didomi closed a 5 million euro (roughly $5.6 million) Series A led by Breega and Bpifrance. “There is a lot of value in getting a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Social Media Vs. Trump Snapchat is the latest social media network to enforce policies that restrain President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. The company said it will no longer promote Trump’s account on the Snapchat Discover feed due to comments he made that could incite violence […]
The US agency sector will lay off about 52,000 jobs over the next two years as media spend declines 23%, Forrester predicts. Agencies are projected to cut 35,167 jobs in 2020 and 16,578 in 2021. The global picture is even starker, with the big six agency holding companies poised to eliminate an additional 49,695 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going Dark If you noticed your Instagram feed flooded with black squares, it was because of Blackout Tuesday, a collective protest against racism and police brutality. Started by the music industry, major retailers and brands such as Nordstrom and Madewell soon got involved, reports […]
Department of Justice lawyers have interviewed numerous buy- and sell-side companies since kicking off an antitrust probe of Google’s business practices roughly a year ago. “They know their shit now,” said one ad tech executive who’s had multiple calls and exchanged a flurry of emails with DOJ attorneys since October. “The early calls were about […]
TripleLift is trying to encourage brands to buy ads next to news content, and has curated a group of 1,600 news publishers into a private marketplace. Those buying within the Help Journalism PMP also won’t have to pay TripleLift’s ad tech fee for the rest of Q2. GroupM has signed more than a dozen of its […]
This is the fifth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. COVID-19 threw a wrench into best-laid marketing plans. But marketers are learning to adapt, said Tasso Argyros, CEO and co-founder of customer data platform ActionIQ. “All of […]
The demand-side platform Beeswax launched a data warehouse product Monday that company CEO Ari Paparo described as analogous to Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH). The Beeswax version is called Antenna and it’s built on the cloud technology company Snowflake, a warehousing and analytics service that is itself built on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Much of JT Batson’s career has focused on bringing tech and automation to bear on the agency-publisher relationship. He was an early employee at Rubicon Project and a senior executive at Donovan Data Systems during the period when […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Are You Committed? Advertisers want more flexibility in upfront deals this year. Cancellation options are a big topic, with buyers pushing for the right to cancel a higher percentage of their commitments closer to air date, agency executives tell Digiday. Advertisers also want “expansion […]
An IAB report on COVID-19’s impact on ad pricing, released Thursday, found that the impact of sell-side CPM declines vary across media channels and supply sources. On the buy side, advertisers might have paused spend, but it’s not totally turned off, and large companies developing contactless ways of doing business should inspire some optimism within […]
Not a news flash: Media agencies are under immense pressure. That was true long before the pandemic. But agencies have also made big investments in data and technology over the last few years that are starting to bear fruit. This week on The Big Story, special guest Jay Pattisall, a principal analyst at Forrester, calls […]
Joe Hogan and his wife flew to the far corner of northwest Florida in early March for a long weekend. They’ve been there ever since. “If we’re still working from home in a month or two, we’re going to suffer through the heat of the summer here, I’m sure,” said the EVP of sales and […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rob Gabel, founder and CEO at Tubular Labs. Stuck inside for more than two months now, many of us have looked toward new interests to help occupy the time away from work and/or parenting […]
For companies like Shopify, Criteo and Instacart, and even for giants like Amazon and Walmart, all of which are all in on agentic commerce investments, figuring out if the agentic oasis is real and has a place for them is priority No. 1.
PubMatic has run more than 30 fully autonomous, end-to-end agentic campaigns through the SSP’s AgenticOS platform, in addition to more than 1,000 direct publisher deals.
TTD CEO Jeff Green laid out the DSP’s plan for winning in a new world of advertising that – AI aside – necessitates major changes in how marketers behave.
TTD confirmed that this CTV publisher’s errors would have made its UID2s useless for ad targeting. But TTD also said it wouldn’t have had enough information to flag the issue.
Criteo shares dropped by 20% Wednesday morning after the company reported shaky Q1 earnings and revised its guidance downward for the rest of the year.
On Wednesday, Josh D’Amaro led his first earnings call as the new CEO of Disney. The company closed last quarter with $25.2 billion in revenue, a 7% year-over-year increase. Disney Entertainment advertising revenue rose 5% YOY, but ESPN ad revenue was down 2% YOY, although subscription and affiliate revenue was up 6%.
